From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T19:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

On Nov 5, 4:11 am, Tony Arcieri <t...@medioh.com> wrote:
>
> I think you're missing why ++ could be useful, and it's precisely because
> Ruby is a "21st century language"
>
> The ++ operator, far more than just being syntactic sugar for +=1, would
> allow you to send an "increment" message to any object, which would change
> its value in place, i.e.
>
>   def ++
>     incrementing_logic_goes_here
>   end
>
> I could see this as being handy

What's wrong with

  def inc
    incrementing_logic_goes_here
  end

How is that any different?